self-sucker

See also: selfsucker

English

Noun

self-sucker (plural self-suckers)

  1. (dated) A female farm animal which drinks its own milk.
    • 1886, The American Agriculturist, volume 45, page 54:
      It is worth while, therefore, to treat the self-suckers while they are giving milk.
    • 1901, The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, volume 18, page 31:
      It is generally the best cows that are self-suckers, the habit being due to the extreme pressure of milk causing pain.
    • 1913, The Breeder's Gazette, Farm Buildings, page 310:
      Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers.
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